The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-10-22
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


Italians are engaged in making
cheese out of tomato pulp at a Burling-
ton IN. J.) canning house.
The waste Stag from the basic con-
verters, especially in those districts
where the ores are of highly phos-
phoretic nature, is being extensively
ground up for manure, and an English
company is doubling its grinding plant
in order to compete with the demand.
-Boston Budget.
--Schwalbe believes malarial fever to
be due 70 q poison. and not to an
organism. He claims that, by making
animals absorb repeated doses of sui
phidc of carbon, or oxy-sulphide OF
carbon dissolved in poppy-oil, he can
induce the alterations in the blood and
organs which are present in patients
dead of nxllarial fever stga
"A full description OF the great
Southern comet of this year has been
published by nr j Nj. Thorne, of the
SouthAmerican observatory of Cordova.
lie says It was in effect all tail, being
without nucleus or condensation of any
degrees long, narrow, clearly-deined.
and very graceful in appearance
NJ z. Ledger.
An industrial canvass of $50 Maine
cities and towns by the Lewistown
Gazette shows that thus far this year
there have been erected 1000 houses.
25 school houses, and adozen churches,
putting s5,000,0O0 into new buildings
of all kinds There are 10000 persons
engaged in producing over $50, 900, 900
worth of goods. and already 145 new
enterprises have been started.
The suggestion that the Chinese
make use of several plants as ginger
which are not known as such by
European botanists, has led to an in
vestigation by Mr.. Charles Ford, of
Hong Kong, who finds only one sort.
which is the commonly cultivated
species botanically know as Zingiber
oNicinale. This plant, however, varies
greatly in its quality with the soil upon
which it is grown.-M Y. Ledger.
"A case of lock-jaw caused by
wound has been successfully treated by
DR.. Mayer, in Germany, who admins
tered iifteen-grain doses of choral
hydrate and bromide of potassium al
tcrnately every hour for fourteen days.
Then he discontinued the choral
hydrate, but gave the bromide month
longer, at the end of which the euro
was complete, although the patient
was left very weak.-N. Y. Ledger.
MIR. Ernest Hart, of the Smoke
Abatement Institute, fears that London
will always suffer from fogs, because it
is placed in river valley. on clay soil,
and is bordered on the Essex side by
low-lying lands very imperfectly
drained, and on the north side by the
Harrow Weald. The fogs generated,
the results of damp exhalations, are
greatly aggravated by the parks, most
of which require draining. But if the
smoke is got rid of the fogs will be
much less dense. .--BOSton Budget.
limo for Mariners.-Thc plan of
signaling accurate time from sea-coasts
was first adopted by Great Britain
about thirty years ago. That country
now has on its coasts fourteen time
balls and five other time-signals, and
its colonies and dependencies have
twenty-six time-balls; Germany has
seven time-balls; France, four time-balls
and two other time-signals; Sweden and
Norway, Austria-Hungary, Holland
with Belgium, and the United States
have five time-balls each; Denmark has
two; Spain and Portugal, one each;
Italy, none.-ArhansaW Trarelcr.